U.S. 2020 Election

The people who stormed the U.S. Capitol weren’t poor, unemployed red-staters. Many were middle-class professionals motivated by the “great replacement” conspiracy theory.

An open letter by former officers calling the president a “Marxist” dictator is a greater threat to U.S. democracy than the ouster of Liz Cheney.

Existing models of U.S. politics are wrong. Here’s how the system really works.

A broken U.S. public sphere, QAnon’s resilience amid disappointment, and how to eavesdrop on policymaking conversations.

The outgoing secretary of state prioritized his political ambitions over America’s interests.

Brazil’s “Tropical Trump” is laying the groundwork to discredit his country’s electoral process.

Adversaries are already leveraging Wednesday’s indelible images of chaos for propaganda purposes.

Trump’s actions on Wednesday have led to an unavoidable national reckoning.

What needs to happen next if U.S. democracy is to survive.

Lessons from democracy-building efforts abroad for use at home.

Trump failed because key Republicans backed down and the military stayed out—yet critical questions remain.

As Congress hangs in the balance, Obama’s national security advisor explains how a president can deal with a less than cooperative legislature.

Rebuilding Republican credibility in national security will require an honest look at Trumpism—and a return to our party’s foreign-policy principles.

France is going to have a harder time selling “strategic autonomy” without the foil of the Trump administration to drive it.

The U.S. president-elect laid out most of his national security team even as more Republicans abandoned Trump and his legal battles over the election results.

But it won’t be a “great bonanza.”

The outgoing president continues to spread falsehoods about fraud, even as the recently fired Chris Krebs calls the elections ‘the most secure’ in history.

Populist authoritarians don’t usually leave through the ballot box. The Democrats’ success offers lessons for others.

Refusing to concede and start the transition creates mostly hindrances, not disasters. But on key issues, obstructing Biden puts America in danger.

Lawmakers are redoubling efforts to ensure all countries can get essential medical equipment during the pandemic despite ramped-up U.S. sanctions.